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Deirdre Shesgreen USA TODAY Published 2:45 p.m. UTC Aug 11, 2018 WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump attacked the FBI in a pair of tweets Saturday for not turning over text messages written by Andrew McCabe, the agency’s former deputy director, to a conservative advocacy group. Trump suggested the FBI was “hiding” something and threatened “to…

Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE LONDON — European firms that stop doing business with Iran because of reimposed U.S. sanctions could in turn be sanctioned by the E.U., a special adviser to the 28-country bloc’s top diplomat has warned. “If E.U. companies abide…

Last Updated Jul 31, 2018 9:15 PM EDT Kroger, the biggest supermarket chain in the U.S., is threatening to bar the use of Visa cards in a dispute over the “swipe” fees it pays to handle customers’ credit and debit card transactions. In a shot across the financial giant’s bow, a California’ subsidiary of the…

by Philip Rucker, Robert Costa and and Damian Paletta July 29 at 11:13 AM Email the author BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — President Trump threatened Sunday to shut down the federal government this fall if Congress does not pass sweeping changes to immigration laws, including appropriating more public money to build his long-promised border wall. “I would…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he would allow the federal government to shut down if Democrats refuse to back major changes to immigration laws his administration wants. FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump at the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, U.S., July 25, 2018. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File Photo…

“The United States will impose large sanctions on Turkey for their long time detainment of Pastor Andrew Brunson, a great Christian, family man and wonderful human being,” tweeted Trump. “He is suffering greatly,” Trump added. “This innocent man of faith should be released immediately!” Brunson, an Evangelical Presbyterian pastor from North Carolina, was arrested in…

The last few years have seen Apple expanding into India with the iPhone, but now the company is facing a serious problem if it doesn’t cater to the demands of the country’s telecom regulator. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has put new rules in place in an effort to protect mobile users’ privacy…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he was ready to impose tariffs on all $500 billion of imported goods from China, threatening to escalate a clash over trade policy that has unnerved financial markets. “We’re down a tremendous amount,” Trump said in an interview about trade imbalances with China on CNBC…

A new species of venomous snake has been discovered in Queensland, but there are fears it may be threatened by bauxite mining in its natural habitat. The ‘Vermicella Parscauda’ snake is the newest member of the bandy-bandy family and was accidentally discovered by a team of scientists from the University of Queensland. However, scientists warn…

Could Tuesday’s All-Star Game at Nationals Park see the rainbow tarp? (Nick Wass/AP) The last time baseball’s All-Star Game was played in Washington, in 1969, torrential rains caused a postponement, with the game eventually played at a soggy and humid RFK Stadium the following afternoon. Since then, Major League Baseball has enjoyed a near-perfect record…

Image copyright Reuters A huge iceberg has drifted close to a village in western Greenland, prompting a partial evacuation in case it splits and the resulting wave swamps homes. The iceberg is looming over houses on a promontory in the Innaarsuit village but is grounded and did not move overnight, local media say. Local officials…

Microsoft’s president is threatening to move white-collar jobs out of the United States if President Donald Trump does not allow the company to hire foreign graduates for the U.S.-based jobs. “We don’t want to move jobs out of the United States and we hope that we don’t see decision making in Washington that would force…

House Republican leaders threatened to hold former FBI lawyer Lisa Page in contempt of Congress unless she agrees to testify by Friday morning about her role in the bureau’s probes into Hillary Clinton’s emails and President Trump’s suspected Russia ties. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman…

The UVF has threatened to orchestrate “serious disorder” in east Belfast on Wednesday night, according to police. PSNI Assistant Chief Constable Alan Todd said he has received information that indicates that the terror organisation intends to “orchestrate and participate in serious disorder” in east Belfast on Wednesday evening. He said the disorder is to be…

Lazio and Italy striker Ciro Immobile was threatened by a man armed with a knife while on vacation with his family. According to the reports in Il Messaggero and Mediaset, Immobile was with his family and friends on the beach in Francavilla al Mare, close to Chieti. The man approached, had an argument with some…

With just hours to go before the U.S. and China trigger billions in tariffs against each other, President Donald Trump is continuing the tough talk. After reaffirming plans to impose $34 billion in tariffs against the Middle Kingdom starting 12:01 a.m. Friday ET, the President told a press gaggle aboard Air Force One Thursday that…

Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul said police have arrested a man who threatened to chop up his family with an ax. Interested in Rand Paul? Add Rand Paul as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Rand Paul news, video, and analysis from ABC News. “This man had threatened to kill me…

Italy’s hardline new premier threatened Thursday to sink a crunch EU summit on migration that embattled German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned could decide the bloc’s fate. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, who heads Italy’s month-old populist and anti-immigration government, said he would block a joint statement from the meeting in Brussels if fellow leaders fail to…

President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened Harley-Davidson with a “big tax” and said the motorbike company’s decision to shift some motorcycle production overseas, “will be the beginning of the end”. A day after the company announced it was moving some production overseas to mitigate the impact of Trump’s tariffs on European steel and aluminium Trump…

“Early this year Harley-Davidson said they would move much of their plant operations in Kansas City to Thailand,” Trump said in another tweet. “That was long before Tariffs were announced. Hence, they were just using Tariffs/Trade War as an excuse.” Tweet Harley did not immediately respond to a CNBC request for comment. Harley said Monday…

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Italy has urged a shared EU response to the issue of migration The European zone of border-free travel could be in danger if no solution is found to the issue of migration, Italy’s prime minister has warned. At an informal meeting of 16 EU leaders in Brussels, Giuseppe Conte called…

“I do think that unless we can actually exercise something other than just approving the President’s executive calendar, his nominees, judges, that we have no reason to be there. So I think myself and a number of Senators, at least a few of us, will stand up and say let’s not move any more judges…

Vienna yesterday suggested that Albania had been earmarked as a location for a European migrant centre. “After being saved, illegal migrants are to be halted and taken care of on the [EU] outside border, and then brought back to their countries of origin as soon as possible,” Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal, Austria’s government spokesman, told German media.…

Srinagar: BJP leader Choudhary Lal Singh drew flak from the media for his controversial statement on Saturday. Speaking along the lines of journalist Shujaat Bukhari’s killing, Singh warned Kashmiri journalists that they would end up with a similar fate as Bukhari if they failed to “draw a line on the journalism you do and how…

President Donald Trump said Friday that if the European Union does not remove its tariffs on American-made cars, the U.S. will respond by imposing a 20 percent tariff. The Trump administration is investigating whether imported autos pose a threat to U.S. national security. The investigation is being conducted under the same provision of the law, known…

President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to escalate a trade war with Europe by imposing a 20 per cent tariff on all U.S. imports of European Union-assembled cars, a month after the administration launched an investigation into whether auto imports pose a national security threat. “If these Tariffs and Barriers are not soon broken down…

US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose a 20 per cent tariff on all European Union-assembled cars coming into the United States, a month after the administration launched an investigation into whether car imports pose a national security threat. “If these Tariffs and Barriers are not soon broken down and removed, we will be…

Donald Trump has threatened to widen the mounting trade dispute between US and the EU by imposing tariffs on European cars, after Brussels made good on its threat of retaliatory levies on American products including bourbon whiskey, Levi’s jeans and Harley-Davidson motorbikes. Raising the stakes in the tit-for-tat exchange of import tariffs threatening to spark…

European Union trade commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom adresses a news conference on the U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminium in Brussels on June 1. (Photo by Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images) President Trump on Friday threatened to unilaterally impose a 20 percent tariff on all automobile imports from Europe, further breaking from Republicans in Congress and front-running an…

President Donald Trump said he plans to impose a 20 percent tariff on all cars imported from the European Union unless the trade bloc “soon” removes import duties and other barriers to U.S. goods, escalating global trade tensions. “Based on the Tariffs and Trade Barriers long placed on the U.S. and it great companies and…

Be smart: Europe exported six million cars in 2016 and 16% went to U.S., per CNBC. That same year, the United States exported $11.8 billion in cars to Europe, per the Observatory of Economic Complexity. German automakers represented 8% of U.S. car sales in 2017 with 1.35 million sold, per CNN, but only 494,000 of…

President Donald Trump tweeted another tariff threat Friday, this time targeting imported autos from the European Union. The president said on his feed that if the EU does not removed duties on U.S. cars, then the U.S. will have no choice but to act. Trump tweet The threat comes just two days after Commerce Secretary…

Europe17:58 14.06.2018Get short URL The new Italian government’s opposition to the EU’s trade accord with Canada reflects its Eurosceptic nature and threatens to upend decades of consensus in the 28-nation bloc. Agriculture Minister Gian Marco Centinaio, a hardline member of the League party, has said that parliament would not ratify the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement…

By David Lawder and Michael Martina WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) – China has underestimated President Donald Trump’s resolve to move forward with tariffs unless Beijing changes its “predatory” trade practices, a top U.S. trade advisor said on Tuesday, in comments that diminished the chances of a negotiated settlement to a looming trade war between the world’s economic…

WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) – China has underestimated President Donald Trump’s resolve to move forward with tariffs unless Beijing changes its “predatory” trade practices, a top U.S. trade advisor said on Tuesday, in comments that diminished the chances of a negotiated settlement to a looming trade war between the world’s economic superpowers. The growing U.S. trade conflict…

Image copyright AFP Image caption The new threat comes after Beijing vowed to retaliate against US tariffs on $50bn worth of Chinese goods US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on an additional $200bn (£151bn) of Chinese goods in a growing trade row. Mr Trump said the 10% tariffs would come into effect…

Image copyright EPA Image caption The two leaders are due to meet in Singapore on 12 June North Korea has said it may pull out of a summit with US President Donald Trump if the US unilaterally insists it gives up nuclear weapons. The highly anticipated meeting between Mr Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un…

Image copyright PA/Getty Images Image caption Andrew Parker, left, will warn so-called Islamic State still aspires to commit more atrocities in Europe, such as the lorry attack in Berlin in 2016 The head of MI5 is warning that so-called Islamic State aspires to commit “devastating” and “more complex” attacks in Europe after losing territory in…